But she has already studied under Seidel as an undergraduate. In "Supersymmetry", she says she was a history major until she attended one of his courses, after which she changed to physics. Seidel's office is clearly in LA by the time Fred is sent to Pylea, so this implies that she studied under him at another institution nearby before beginning graduate work with him in LA. He must have been offered a job in Los Angeles (or maybe he was in Texas as a visiting lecturer), and Fred followed.
That's acceptable and common. I used to know a woman who was an engineering grad student who followed her professor from Indiana to Georgia.
I don't know where Fred first studied. I want her to have studied at the University of Texas at Austin, because then I could describe her life there with a fair degree of accuracy. ... But we have, AFAIK, no way of telling if she went there or to any of the other universities in east central Texas.
Assert it, then. I hear that Austin's wild enough that any self-respecting, god-fearing
I should persuade the SO to watch "Supersymmetry" with me. I half-understand the physics references, but not enough to tell when Mutant Enemy start making it up. ... But I have no real idea who "Nomar Garciaparra and Sammy Sosa" are, except that I think they're probably sports stars.
Sammy Sosa plays for the Chicago Cubs. Nomar plays for the Boston Red Sox. Both are big home-run hitters, IIRC. Sammy was neck and neck for the home run record a few years ago, and Nomar I know because the recurring Boston characters on Saturday Night Live all love him.
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Date: 2004-05-31 08:16 am (UTC)That's acceptable and common. I used to know a woman who was an engineering grad student who followed her professor from Indiana to Georgia.
I don't know where Fred first studied. I want her to have studied at the University of Texas at Austin, because then I could describe her life there with a fair degree of accuracy. ... But we have, AFAIK, no way of telling if she went there or to any of the other universities in east central Texas.
Assert it, then. I hear that Austin's wild enough that any self-respecting, god-fearing
I should persuade the SO to watch "Supersymmetry" with me. I half-understand the physics references, but not enough to tell when Mutant Enemy start making it up. ... But I have no real idea who "Nomar Garciaparra and Sammy Sosa" are, except that I think they're probably sports stars.
Sammy Sosa plays for the Chicago Cubs. Nomar plays for the Boston Red Sox. Both are big home-run hitters, IIRC. Sammy was neck and neck for the home run record a few years ago, and Nomar I know because the recurring Boston characters on Saturday Night Live all love him.
And do it. Have him watch.